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Apparently Somali pirates might ruin the holidaysI’ll be honest; I can’t really tell how much of this recent Reuters article is pure, unabashed sensationalism and how much of it is something to seriously worry about. Apparently pirate activity (the yarrr kind, not the torrent kind) near Somalia has been picking up recently, with m... |
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You Can Own Your Own HoverchairBritish inventor Keith Dixon has invented a lounge chair that uses repelling magnets between the seat and the base to allow users to float a few inches off the ground. It’s one of the items that will be featured at this weekend’s Stuff Live gadget fair in London. Company site and Reu... |
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Volt Birth Watch 113: Inside The Volt Battery DevelopmentCurious about how things are progressing on the Volt front? Want to know all about how the Volt team “weighed each metric by importance and factored in what Volt vehicle-line executive Tony Posawatz diplomatically calls “qualitative factors,” such as, Are we going to hate working with these gu ... |
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For peat's sakeBy Joseph RommA new study in Nature Geoscience ($ub. req'd, abstract below) projects that "a warming of 4 degrees C causes a 40 percent loss of soil organic carbon from the shallow peat and 86 percent from the deep peat" of Northern peatlands. And that amplifying carbon cycle feedback... |
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Microsoft-RIM Deal is as Likely as the 'AppleBerry'Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek’s latest prediction is that Microsoft is likely to buy Research in Motion for $50 a share. Misek had a similar theory back in 2006: Apple was going to pick up RIM to create some sort of mobile device that incorporated its iPod technology. We all... |
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Nokia's first Comes with Music handset on sale 10/17 in UKFiled under: Cellphones, Portable Audio A recent Reuters article doesn't mention a specific model (although we have our hunches), but one thing's for sure: some kind of Comes with Music handset is launching on October 17th. We had previously assumed that October 2nd would be the go-live date for... |
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